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(No Model.)

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Patented Mar. 4, 1884.

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UNITE STATES PATENT Orrrcn.

' cARL'HoHEIsEN, OF PFORZHEIM, BADEN, GERMANY.

CHARM-TELESCOPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 294,467, dated .March 4, 1884.

Application filed September 18, 1883.

(No model.) Patented in England October 13, 1883, No. 4,870, and in France October 16, 1883,-

My invention provides a charm to be worn on a chain, which charm, when closed, presents the appearance of a locket, and when opened forms an imitationof a tiny telescope.

Referring to the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a View ofthe front end of the charm when closed. Fig.

2 represents a view' of the same end of the charm-case when the latter is open, the telescope being removed therefrom. Fig. 3 shows the manner of introducing the telescope. Fig. t represents a side elevation of the char1n,the telescope in position in the locket, showing its appearancewhen it is extended as to be used.

Fig. 5 represents the annular ring of the locket, and Fig. 6 represents one of the rings of the telescope.

The ringAforms the rim or the foundation of the rim of the locket, and maybe made of any suitable metal or material, and is provided with a suitable suspension device, a, by which the locket may be suspended from the chain.

The locket is preferably provided with covers Ac, and these are suitably secured to the ring A, preferably by a hingeconnection. The ringA and the covers (when one or both of the latter are present) form the case of thelocket;

The telescope B, to be placed in the locket, consists of a number of sections, b,the diameter of the end section, I), being such that the said end section will closely and evenly fit within the ring A, and each succeeding section b toward the ocular end of the telescope being slightly smaller than the one preceding it, so that in closing the telescope one section preferably covers another perfectly, it being only by this means possible to produce so compact and cheap a telescope. scope is closed it may be contained within the locket when the lids are closed.

The. preferred mode of securing together the various sections of the telescope so that they will slide one upon another in the usual man- Thus when the telener of a telescope, and yet be prevented from dropping apart, differs from the mode usually adopted in telescopes, and-is as follows: A pin, 6, 011 one side of each section b of the tesescope fits into a slit, 6, in the adjacent side of the succeeding section, each section being provided at opposite sides with such a pin and slit as shown in Fig. 6, and the various sections of the telescope are thereby securedtogether and allowed to telescope one within an-- other.

- The preferred method of securing the telescope in the locket is that shown in the drawlngs. more angular slots, D, one end of said slot being open at the edge of the ring, and on the side of the ringb of the telescope is one or more pins, (1, corresponding to the number of slots D. Said pins are so located and arranged as to enter, respectively, the slots D, there being one pin for each slot. This slot-and-pin connection forms what; is technically known as a bayonet-joint, and by the employment of this joint the telescope may be readily secured in or removed from the ring A. p

' The object-glass of the telescope may be secured in the ring I); or, if desired, it may be inserted in the ringAof the locket and secured therein after the telescope has been inserted. If desired, apicture may be painted on the object-glass, so that when a person looks into the telescope this picture will be magnified and present the appearanceof a large picture. The locket may be ornamented in any man ner to suit the fancy of the manufacturer.

The. telescope, when closed, may be prevent- The ring A is provided with one or ed by any suitable means from being drawn out, except as desired.

WVhere the cover a is present, it W11] when closed down, duly secure the telescope in a closed condition.

Where the front cover, A, 1s present, 1t may I tended (when the locket is opened) without removing it from the locket, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

2. A charm having a supporting-ring and a lid and a telescope capable of extension and connected to said ring, the lid securing the telescope, when closed, from extension, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

3. A charm having a supportingring and front and rear lids and a telescope capable of extension secured to said ring, and, when closed up, iuelosed by the said supporting-ring and the closed front and rear lids, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

4. A charm having a supporting-ring and rear and front lids, in combination with a telescope consisting of sections and secured to the supporting-ring of the locket by a bayonetjoint, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

5. A charm consisting of a locket having a supporting-ring and a rear lid, in combination with a telescope, B, consisting of a number of sections, b b, said telescope being secured-in the locket by means of a bayonet-joint,and the rear lid shutting over the ocular end of the telescope when closed, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

(3. A telescope having the sections 1), each provided on one side with a pin, a, and on the other side with the slit 0, the pin of one section engaging the slit of an adjacent section, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

7. A telescope having the sections 1), each interior section being as narrow as its encircling section, each section having a pin, 0, and slit 0, the pin of one section engaging the slit of an adjacent section, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

8. The combination of section b and the sections b. each of the latter being provided with pin and slit, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbei'ore mentioned.

CARL HOHEISEN.

W'itnesses:

F. ENGLERT, FRANZ BI'LITLLER. 

